| 单词 | penny gallery |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspenny gallery penny gallery n. ΚΠ 1604 T. Middleton Father Hubbards Tales in Wks. (1840) V. A dull audience of stinkards sitting in the penny-galleries of a theatre. 1908 Times 13 Jan. 4/2 It is estimated that the number, chiefly children, who desired admission to the penny gallery was over a thousand. 1961 F. E. Halliday Shakespeare ix. 204 Till now their playhouse had been a large open amphitheatre, their audience a cross-section of London society, from courtiers who sat on the stage to penny gallery stinkards and groundlings who stood in the yard. < as lemmas |
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